Kibong Rhee

• Born in 1957, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1985       MFA in Fine Art at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  1981       BFA in Western Painting at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2012   
  The Cloudium, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011   
  There is No Place, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, US
  
  2008      
  The Wet Psyche, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005      
  The Connective, Sindoh Art Center, Asan, Korea
  
  2003      
  about vanishment II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997      
  about vanishment II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995      
  Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994      
  Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993      
  Hena-Kent Gallery, New York, US
  
  1992      
  Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea
  Four Season Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991      
  Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988      
  In Kong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2019      
  The 25th Anniversary Simon's Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018      
  Neo-Moroism, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing, China
  
  2017      
  Your Hand, My Heart, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Neo-Naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016      
  Neo-Moroism 2016, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing, China
  New Romance: Art and the Post Human (Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Partir, Bogéna Galerie, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2016, Changwon, Korea
  
  2015      
  New Romance (Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Into Thin Air, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014      
  Neo-Sansu, Dague Museum of Art, Daegue, Korea
  K-Pop: Process. Otherness. Play, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
  Water_Innocence, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012   
  (Im) Possible Landscape, Plateau (Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
  Mediations Biennale, Poland
  2012 Korean Contemporary Art in China: ReBooting, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
  SeMA Hidden Track 2012, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  
  2011   
  Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
  
  2010   
  Screaming From The Mountain, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
  Sensorium, Korea University Museum, Korea.
  The Scents of Forest, Sound of Forest, Ewha Womans University Museum, Korea
  And_writers 2010, Nanjing Biennale, Najing, China
  Mirrors of continuous changes, TaeKwang Industrial Co, Korea
  Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
  
  2009      
  Reflection, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
  The 6^th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  Biennale Cuvée 2009, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
  
  2008      
  Drawn in the Clouds: Contemporary Asian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
  2008 Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla and Granada, Spain
  Re-Imagining Asia, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany / New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom
  Emergent Poetics, Emocaoartificial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
  KIAF Special Exhibition, KIAF, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007      
  Thermocline of Art - The New Asian Wave, ZKM, Kalsruhe, Germany
  Simon’s Six Friends, Simon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006      
  Simon’s Five Friends, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005      
  The Blue, Gallery Gana, Seoul, Korea
  Cool & Warm, Sunggok Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Echo Beyond Time: The Traditional and the Modern, Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004      
  Image Utopia, Museum Han Jun Plaza, Seoul, Korea
  The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea    
  VENTD’EST, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
  
  2002      
  Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000~2001       
  John’s Church Project, Seongnam, Korea
  
  2001      
  Lunapark, Uta Nusser, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  1999      
  Dialogue, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Sweet Lips, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998      
  4+1 Korean Artists, Hofstra Museum, New York, US
  Spiritual-Scape, Generous-Miracle Gallery, New York, US
  Chorus & Distortion, Gallery Untitled, New York, US
  Contemporary Art Polemics: Media & Surface, Sunggok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Project 8, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  PICAF 98, City Museum, Busan, Korea
  Friends of Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  
  1997      
  2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, GongPyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996      
  Ana-chrome, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Print Art Fair, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Art at Home, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995      
  The Eye of Dealer, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Total Prized Artists’ Show, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, China Museum, Beijing, China
  Seoul ‘80, Gallery Gain, Seoul, Korea
  Retrospective of Contemporary Art ’50, Seoul Press Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1994      
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Artists of Yeh Gallery, Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul ’80, Shilla Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  Suggestion, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993      
  Language of Figurative, Gallery Vinkel, Seoul, Korea
  Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul ’80, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
  Total Grand Art Exhibition, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Gallery Forum, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992      
  Form & Representation, Los Angeles, US
  Human, the Face and History, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Consciousness, Sound, Echo, Gallery Four Season, Seoul, Korea
  Ecole de Seoul, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  21 Korea Contemporary Art, Gallery 21, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991      
  Ulsan Gallery Opening Show, Ulsan, Korea
  Four Exhibitions, Gallery Focus, Seoul, Korea
  Informal après Informal, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  New Image New Age, Gallery Meegun, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, Fondation Vasarely, Aix- en- Provence, France
  
  1990      
  Inaugural Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Seomi Center, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Exhibition of Invited Contemporary Artist, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Contemporary Art, Ho-am Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Invited Exhibition of Choi Gallery, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Memorial Exhibition of the 3rd Gallery, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Artists in ’90 Show, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1988      
  Rhee, Ki Bong/ Choi Jung Hwa Show, Batang-Gol Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  March in Seoul, Soo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987
  The Artist’s Today, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Réalité Seoul, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Invited Exhibition of Awarded Artist in Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986
  Logos & Pathos, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Grand Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Contemporary Form, Dooson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Art Festival, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art Trend ‘86, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul 79 Artist, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1985      
  1985, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Young Artist 16, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1984      
  Contemporary Art 82, Dooson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983      
  Contemporary Print 5, Yun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Independent, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Young Printmaker 20, Yun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982-1984        
  Contemporary Art 82, Kung-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Artist Today, Art Center, Los Angeles, US

Selected Awards

• 1994      
  Total Art Prize
  
  1986      
  Grand Prize, The Grand Art Exhibition of Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Artsonje Museum, Seoul, Korea 
  ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, US
  Jill Sander Collection, Germany
  Ronald and Ann Pizzuti, Columbus, Ohio, US
  Barbara & Richard Lane, New York, US
  Mitchell & Fran Harwood, New York, US
  Gerald Lippes, Buffalo, New York, US
  Brigitte Wagner-Halswick, Cologne, Germany
  Luigi & Lidia Zaza, Chiasso, Switzerland
  Reverend Alfred R. Shands, Kentucky, US